Social distancing and lockdown measures taken to contain the spread of COVID-19 may have distributional economic costs beyond the contraction of GDP. Here we evaluate the capacity of individuals to work under a lockdown based on a Lockdown Working Ability index which considers their teleworking...

This paper aims to clarify the similarities and differences between the concepts of bi-polarization and inequality by proposing an extended measure of bi-polarization, which is consistent with the second polarization curve. The standard decomposition property of population subgroups for the Gini...